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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds like a nightmare for schools.  How are they going to cover teachers regularly being out for half a day?  My kid has an IEP and the teachers are legally required to be present for the meetings, and it's hard enough to coordinate coverage for that.  [/quote]
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Ma’am. They are required to give input. 
Schools had better start offering work settings that mirror the work from home perks. [/quote]

:roll: Teaching is by its nature not a flexible job. And teachers are usually free by 3:15 and all summer … not to mention three weeks of break during the school year. [/quote]

Teaching is a very flexible job. Summer off, tons of school holidays, nice winter and spring breaks. They finish the day early enough to run errands and do appointments after work. Plus the planning periods during the work day to catch up. Lots of flexibility and perks.[/quote]

There are a lot of perks to teaching (and tons if hard work) but it is not flexible.  It is one of the few jobs where you cannot take off without doing a ton of work to prepare for that absence (or deal with the consequences of your kids not learning and bring a mess for the sub).  The summer off is great but I feel lucky my husband has a more flexible programming job.  He winds up taking care of covering all sick kid days and random couple of hours off to meet plumber or similar things.  It is really stressful to be absent as a teacher.  We do have the school breaks but no flexibility in taking off.  So yes- teachers get more days off than most but the job is not flexible.  [/quote]

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